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George HW Bush came to Texas as a grown-up and has never quite got the Texan thing down, but his son is a different critter altogether.
He grew up in Midland, and returned there after graduating from Harvard. He was about 14 when he went to prep school and evidentally he felt more at home in Texas than in the East. One reason that the Eastern elite hates him so much is because he has so deliberately rejected much of what they hold dear, including their agnosticism. Compare their disdain toward him with their adulation of William Jefferson Clinton, now a resident of New York. I once knew, casually, Wille Morris, a Missippian who came to work for the Texas Observer, a famously liberal Texas magazine. Willie evetually became, for a short time, the editor of "Harpers" or "Atlantic Monthly," (never can tell the difference between these two rags). He wrote a memoir called"North Toward Home." George W. Bush will never write such a book. When his memoir is finally published, it probably will tell how a boy from Texas found himself in an alien environment and made the best of it ,before returning to Texas to live his life. Of course the ranch and hat are all imposture; he is not and never was a cattleman. Wsanht to understand himself, however, and you had better think independent Texas oilman."That is a type one doesn't find in New England and is as antithetical to the Ivy league view of the world as the Virginian Lees were to their Yale classmates.